3. I know Ephraim, and Israel has not been hidden from me, yet now Ephraim has committed fornication, and Israel has been contaminated.
4. They will not set their thoughts to return to their God, for the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.
5. And the arrogance of Israel will answer to his face. And Israel and Ephraim will fall in their iniquity, and even Judah will fall with them.
6. With their flocks and their herds, they will go to seek the Lord, and they will not find him. He has taken himself away from them.
7. They have sinned against the Lord. For they have conceived sons that are strangers. Now one month will devour them with all their own.